Manic Monkey

Some simple monkeypatches to ruby core classes

String

The string class now has an unindent method. This is useful for things like HERE docs.

Sample usage

require 'manic_monkey'

Hash

Hash#symbolize_keys!

Rails Hash method symbolize_keys! to turn keys of strings into symbols

Hash#deep_symbolize

Deep symbolize method to symbolize keys recursively See this gist for more information.

Symbolizes all of hash's keys and subkeys. Also allows for custom pre-processing of keys (e.g. downcasing, etc) if the block is given:

somehash.deep_symbolize { |key| key.downcase }

Usage

Either include it into global Hash class to make it available to all hashes, or extend only your own hash objects with this module.

Example 1:

class Hash
  include DeepSymbolizable
end

Example 2:

myhash.extend DeepSymbolizable

Hash Accessors

Typical Useage: You need accessors to the level 1 keys of database stored serialized data, e.g. json, jsonb, xml

In your class that has the serialized db column

class AwesomeSauce
  hash_accessor :column_of_serialized_data, :key1, :key2

This should now allow you to call the method directly on an object created from the class

@object = AwesomeSauce.new
@object.key1

versus

@object = AwesomeSauce.new
@object.column_of_serialized_data[:key1]